Exit Here: Cross-Book Inquiry

I am currently reading the book Exit here by the author Jason Myers. This book really relates to the college/teenage life and scenecs that would probably appear in any place at any time. Well it seems very closeto the party scenes that you would expect at a college age, which relates  to another book that I have read pretty recently. The book that this book relates to is called Be More Chill, it is similar to this book because it just relates to the social life that is a  hugepart in both books, and for the same fact that they are bothsimilar ages living in our world. They are both searching for something in their life too.

In both books, they seem to be searching for a girl they both seem to always need to find that missing part in their life.Like in Be More Chill,he takes a pill in order to be cooler so he can get this girl of his dreams. The main character in Be More Chill seems to have a verystrong need for the girl to be his girlfriend, without it seems as if his life isn't complete. Also in the current book I am reading now it seems as if the main character, Trevor, is missing something in his life without his old girlfriend Laura. People in the book start to notice it a bit that he seems less excited. It probably is the fact that he doesn't have his old girlfriend like he used to.

In both books it kind of seem that drugs and the party scene is a bad problem in their lives. They both seem to have a dramatic downfall in their lives because of the drugs and craziness that goes on in these parties. Especially for Trevor, Trevor faces serious problems in his life because of this. He started to drop his grades very low, andd it led him to getting arrested. Tome it seems like away to get rid of his loss of Laura. It makes him forget the moments that he;s in and justt forget them as if it never happened, it's his own healing mechanism. For the main character in Be More Chill, it's just tomuch for him to engulf at once,it makes him do things that he's not prepared for. He starts doing crazy things like cheating with a boy's girlfriend.

In conclusion,they are both close because they face similar problems, in life that affect them greatly (in bad terms). They can't seem to face their own problems truly without anything else.

Looking for Alaska is a book about a personnamed Miles who goes off to boarding school and encounters new things that he has never seen before in his life, such as smoking, sex and basically he starts to go towards his rebellious side. I've noticed many archtypes in the story because of the new environment he's put in.

The obvious hero in the story is Alaska she is also a mentor because of the fact that she does teach and guide him through boarding school life, but she deserves the spot as a hero because she does have many flaws in her life, but it is very courageous. Alaska has many flaws in her life. She's not veryloyal because of the fact that she cheated on her boyfriend, and made out with Miles. She is also not very content with herself she is always finds herself to be unhappy, "I am an unhappy girl."She is so unpleased with her life,which considers her to be unperfect. She is very courageous, afer hearing that she is an unhappy person this is surprising. She's not afraid of getting in trouble, it'probably the fact that she doesn't care about her life.

The mentor in the story would have to be "colonel", he is the the mentor of Miles because he is very influential on Miles in a positive way. Colonel is never the one to go over the top  with anything, so he's always he suttle one.This is why he's able to restrain Miles fom going overboard with Alaska's courageous ways. He also symbolizes experience because he teaches Miles from past experiences ways that he can get caught smoking (they smoke a lot) and who are people that you should not trust in the boarding school.He was also the first person to take Miles under his arm the moment Miles went to te boarding school. He's really been thefirst real friend Miles had ever.

The shadow would haveto be the "weekday warriors" or the rich white people in the school. The first timeMiles arrived in school he was harrassed by dumping him in the lake and making him nearly drown. They're like the bullies of the school. This is the shadow or the darker side because they're the ones that basically started the whole problem in the school with Miles in the first place. After they did this to Miles, colonel got angry and started to play pranks on them. It started to become a prank war, and their dislike for each other increased a lot. Their snottyness makes them seem as bullies of the school,and they are basiclly trouble makers.

The shapeshifter of the story would have to be the eagle, he is basically the dean of the school. He's a shapeshifter because he doesn'treally take authority's side like he's supposed to. He pretty much supports Miles' side and other kids because he's not very strict into expelling people unless neccessary. He really justt focuses on the school reputation more than the law if it's right or not. He sometimes takes the laws side like when he expelled two kids for alcohol ingestion,, it was onl once though so not really. That's how Alaska and Miles do bad things without getting caught.

Looking for Alaska: book connection to Spud

I am currently reading the book Looking For Alaska by John Green. I have just started the book this week and it’s really good it’s the first good book I have read in a while. This book seems to resemble the book Spud because of the similar boarding school experience with girls, and adventures that happen during on campus. I noticed that many similar things happen during the story it almost seems that all books about boarding schools are so cliché. It seems that once a person enters life on campus their lives all of sudden change into a rebellious life, that’s full of a lot of mischief and antics that the main character always seem to take part in with other boarding school roommates.

My first reason that supports why the book Spud is similar to this book I’m reading right now is the fact that there is always a girl that they seem to be attracted to the most. In Looking for Alaska, the main character Miles (a.k.a Pudge) is in love with this girl named Alaska which you can obviously see that because of the title of the book. Which is so similar to the book Spud, it doesn’t happen in the beginning of the book, but as the book goes forward the main character in the book who is named John Milton, falls in love with another girl who is not in the boarding school, named Amanda she seemed to be the strongest love that he had out of the one that he had before he falls in love with Debbie. In both books Amanda and Alaska both have boyfriends. Yet they always seem to end up in a romantic moment in the night.

My second reason that supports why Spud and Looking for Alaska are similar is the fact that in both books there is always pranks to be made with other roommates. In Spud they played a prank on John by snatching him in his bed and harassed him in the bathroom. Also in the other book Miles was picked up while he was sleeping on his first day. They picked him up and tied him with ropes, and sunk him in the lake on campus. It seems that pranks just seem to follow where ever there are roommates. Pranks just happen non-stop in Spud and in Looking for Alaska. So far in my current book pranks are being planned and performed to all the supporting characters in the book even Alaska, they flooded her room deeply, and damaged many valuables. To me it seems so stereotypical for the fact that it seems that kids act immature whenever parents are not there.

Boarding just seems like a place of rebellious kids and a lot of mischief. It surprises me that in both books that their lives change dramatically after just moving to boarding schools. It’s such a change from normal people, to people you wouldn’t have even thought were smart enough to attend a boarding school. It’s a little unrealistic to me, yet it’s what makes the book very interesting.

Just Kids:Theme of the book

I am currently reading the book Just Kids by Patti Smith. I am currently reading the book and it seems to be a mix of things that the character has been going through (both characters). These characters have a passion for art, and the book seems to focus on this and their lives in general. Yet their lives are very realistic, they share conflicts in which are very relatable to our world in the book. One of the most similar themes I have seen in the book is early pregnancy; this theme has been very prominent considering the beginning of the book which is very important to hook the reader in talks about pregnancy which I have yet to uncover. Pregnancy is a huge theme in the book for the fact that it creates discrimination against you and the people around you. It also makes you backtrack and change your life in succeeding.

In the book one of the main characters is obviously a female in order to be having a baby. When she gets pregnant her life completely changes around. In the book she sleeps with a boy and realizes that she got pregnant. This creates a tremendous amount of problems for her because like I said it first created discrimination around her. Since she is a pretty religious catholic it is a known belief that you're not supposed to have sex before marriage, and obviously she violated this belief. Her neighbors started to look at her distastefully, and her family's reputation went down, even though it wasn't that high before anyways. Yet they still treated her bad, quote “they treated my family like I was harboring a criminal." This shows you how extreme their judge mentality was towards her. Yet this is so relatable currently in our world. Many people watch the show called teen mom and I have heard many people talk about, so discriminative; they act like just because they had a baby they ultimately changed in to a bad person. Yet really they are obviously the same person. I honestly think that it is true that they actually should have thought about it before, especially since they knew they had no ways back then to prevent birth (relating back to the story now). Early pregnancy is obviously a major problem in the story.

Early pregnancy also creates a huge backtrack in your life, and obviously she knows it does because she has had a huge back track since her original life before she ever became pregnant. She had to leave her home after she got pregnant because of all the ridicule she got from neighbors. She left, but still had issues with other things because of the fact that her family didn’t make that much money, so, basically she left with nothing but a little amount of savings. She had to go live with a family that kindly accepted her inside their home. If it wasn’t for her being pregnant she would continue her art and her easy going life to enjoy reading every day. But yet she is pregnant and had to find a job that she didn’t like at all and now is struggling with a lot of things. Which is in the real world and being pregnant can immediately ruin your life. In teen mom most of them have problems even finishing school because they have to take care of their newborn child. A lot of people don’t even go back to school period. It causes a huge speed bump, because now you can’t worry about you, only your son or daughter. Pregnancy is such a turning point and theme for the main character.

In conclusion, being pregnant really changed her life. This is really special because it really does show pregnancy a lot. This is really comparable of our life; even though we have birth control it still happens which makes me wonder if that made a difference.